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Anniversary Eve
When you are a blogger and it’s the eve of your 38th wedding anniversary, you start writing but are quickly convinced that every thing you might say about love or marriage or anniversaries you’ve said before – last year or the year before or… Continue Reading “Anniversary Eve”
An Anniversary Eve Reflection on Marriage
To celebrate our anniversary tomorrow, my husband went through the 3-inch stack of recipes he clipped from the New York Times over the past few years and threw out all the ones that had fish sauce as an ingredient. It doesn’t quite match religious… Continue Reading “An Anniversary Eve Reflection on Marriage”
Over the Road
My husband surprised me by the water tank at the end of Day 2 of the 2007 Komen 3-Day Breast Cancer Walk in San Diego, California after I’d walked 20 very slow miles with my daughter, stopping at every turn to nurse the foot that… Continue Reading “Over the Road”
The Audacity of Peas
He couldn’t resist telling me. Of course, he waited until I raved about how the peas were a perfect complement to his tandoori chicken, how, tucked in amidst the basmati rice, they were the perfect little green orbs. I love peas. I have an… Continue Reading “The Audacity of Peas”
Two a Day #3: Two Days Married
It was a little bumpy at the beginning, well, intermittently for a while, but eventually ours became a terrific marriage. There is something to the adage “give it time.” We have – it’ll be 32 years on February 28th. This is a story about… Continue Reading “Two a Day #3: Two Days Married”
Couldn’t Be Luckier
I’ve told this story a thousand times. My husband and I got engaged (so to speak) on February 21st and married a week later on February 28th (it would have been the same day had we lived in Las Vegas instead of Milwauke) all on a dare, double dare. A decision one-upped by one of my kids who got engaged and married within 24 hours by figuring out how to speed things up by going to Rockford, IL. Ok, so Illinois is good at something.
Anyway, this is only interesting, maybe, because we’ve been married for 28 years. If it had only lasted a year, everyone would have said, “See what happens when you rush into things!”
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